• Rifles of the I.R.A. is the fourth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album title Rifles of the I.R.A. makes reference to the Irish...
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  • composer The Wolfe Tones, on their 1970 album Rifles of the I.R.A. "Rifles Of The I.R.A. lyrics and chords". Irish folk songs. "Rifles of the IRA". Archived...
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  • songs written by the group include "Joe McDonnell", a song about the life and death of the Provisional IRA member Joe McDonnell, who was the fifth person...
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    Erin go bragh (category Culture of Ireland)
    song In 1969, the band The Wolfe Tones released a song called "Erin Go Bragh" on their LP Rifles of the I.R.A.. The song tells of the Easter Rising in...
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    The Rashtriya Rifles (RR; transl. National Rifles) is a counter-insurgency/counter-terrorism force in India, formed in 1990, to specifically serve in...
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  • Assault rifles are full-length, select fire rifles that are chambered for an intermediate-power rifle cartridge that use a detachable magazine. Assault...
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  • Skibbereen (song) (category The Dubliners songs)
    "It's well I do remember the year of forty eight, When I arose with Erin's boys to battle against the fate. I was hunted thro' the mountains like a traitor...
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  • Troubles #14 (June 1972), page 31. "The Rifles of the IRA". Magill. 1 March 1978. Retrieved 26 October 2021. "Kilkelly an IRA training camp - Gardaí", Mayo...
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  • in October 1908, The Wolfe Tones, on their 1969 album Rifles of the I.R.A. Mike Harding, as a 1976 single Houghton Weavers, on their 1978 Album Sit Thi...
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  • Berdan rifle (redirect from Berdan rifles)
    were produced until the mid-1930s. The Russian Berdan I (M1868) and Berdan II (M1870) rifles of .42 caliber are distinct from the Spanish Berdan 15 mm...
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  • Kesh is a song which protests IRA imprisonment at Long Kesh prison. Sean South of Garryowen is rather controversial as it honours the legacy of Irish Republican...
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    Assault rifle (redirect from Assault rifles)
    battle rifles, the development of the M16 rifle during the Vietnam War prompted the adoption of assault rifles by the rest of NATO. By the end of the 20th...
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  • and the rifles' crack" is almost always omitted in recordings of the song. Dylan Walshe recorded a version live from Cave in Rock. Alan Stivell on the Olympia...
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    The Assam Rifles (AR) is a central armed police force force responsible for border security, counter-insurgency, and maintaining law and order in Northeast...
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    Battle rifle (redirect from Battle rifles)
    examples of semi-automatic fully powered-cartridge rifles used in World War I are the Fusil Automatique Modèle 1917 in 8×50mmR Lebel and the Winchester...
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    List of bolt-action rifles List of carbines List of shotguns List of straight-pull rifles List of pump-action rifles List of machine guns List of multiple-barrel...
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  • (1969) Wolfhound on Best of the Wolfhound (1974) Battlefield Band on On the Rise (1986) Wolfe Tones on Rifles of the I.R.A. (1991) Julee Glaub on Fields...
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    (IRA) father Stephen, who had fought in the War of Independence, and is concerned with political divisions in working-class Dublin of the 1920s. The song...
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  • a comprehensive term describing a series of lever action repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Developed from the 1860...
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  • by no means complete. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AA12 AK Rifles AK-47 AK-74 AK-74M AKM AK-12 AK-15 AK-19 AK-101...
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    Lee–Enfield (redirect from Enfield rifles)
    Lee-Metford rifles. It featured a ten-round box magazine which was loaded with the .303 British cartridge manually from the top, either one round at a time or...
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    FAL, AKM and M16 rifles; DShK heavy machine guns; LPO-50 flamethrowers; and Barrett M90 sniper rifles. The IRA also used a variety of bombs during its...
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    (1642–51). In the 1750s, a few German rifles were used by British light infantry regiments in the Seven Years' War. In January 1776, 1,000 rifles were ordered...
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  • depots. In the 1969–1971 period this was no longer feasible. By 1972, the IRA had large quantities of modern small arms, particularly Armalite rifles, manufactured...
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    The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces regiment raised from Britain's East African colonies in 1902. It primarily carried...
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    Kevin Barry (category Old Belvedere R.F.C. players)
    him in Glasgow, the "Volunteer Kevin Barry Republican Flute Band". Barry's execution is mentioned in the folk song "Rifles of the I.R.A.", which was written...
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    The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British...
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    The 21 Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (Reserve), historically known as The Artists Rifles is a regiment of the Army Reserve. Its name is abbreviated...
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    Sniper rifle (redirect from Sniper rifles)
    its range. By the 1870s, the perfection of breech loading magazine rifles led to sniper rifles having "effective accurate" ranges of up to a mile away from...
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    The Rajputana Rifles is the oldest rifle regiment of the Indian Army. It was originally a part of the British Indian Army, when six previously existing...
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